Ph.D. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Since 2003. Professor of Law at McGill University and Director of its Human Rights Programme. Member of the Canadian Parliament since 1999. Cotler is an international human rights lawyer, he served as Counsel to former prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union (Andrei Sakharov), South Africa (Nelson Mandela), Latin America (Jacob Timmerman), and Asia (Muchtar Pakpahan). In June 2000 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on matters concerning the International Criminal Court. Recent

Publications include: Nuremberg Forty Years Later: The Struggle Against Injustice in Our Time (McGill-Queens’s Press 1995), The Holocaust, Thefticide, And Restitution: a Legal Perspective, in A. Beker, Ed., The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust: Confronting European History (Palgrave Publisher, 2001), Holocaust Denial, Equality and Harm: Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance in a Liberal Democracy, in R. Cohen-Almagor, ed., Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).